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' UNITED STATES PATENT Grates.

WILLIAM H. TURNER, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR'TO THE TURNERTRUCK COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

TRUCK FOR MOVING HARVESTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 258,616, dated May 30,1882,

Application filed December 24, 1881. (No model.) 1

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. TURNER, a resident of Indianapolis, inthe county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented a new anduseful Improved Grain-Binder Truck, of which the following is aspecification, having reference to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide a means of moving grain-binders from place to place in a direction at right angles to theirordinary line of draft, and thus render it unnecessary to take themapart to get them through an ordinary barn or shed doorway, or along ahighway and through gates and bars of ordinary width. Grain-binders arebuilt so wide that they cannot conveniently be drawn along a highway orthrough ordinary openings in fences.

My invention consists in a fourwheeled truck peculiarly adapted toreceive and carry a grain-binder, as hereinafter fully explained.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention, in which Figure l isa view in perspective, showing the general construction and preparationfor loading. Fig. 2 is an elevation showing the position of binder whenon the truck. Fig. 3 is an enlarged view of a bolster and sections ofreaches. Fig. at is a trans 'erse section of the hounds and adjustableblocks.

Like letters refer to like parts in all figures.

Fig. 1 represents a truck having four wheels, of cast-iron, aboutfifteen inches in diameter, mounted on wooden axles, and having thebolsters a a, the tops of which are level with the tops of the wheels.Said bolsters are connected by the reaches 1) b, and are placed the samedistance apart, or from center to center, as the wheels of the binder.The reaches are made with tapering sides and are fitted into bolsters,as shown in Fig. 1, and the hooked end engages with eyes or staples onthe frame of the binder when loaded, as shown in Fig. 2. The front axleis provided with hounds e for the reception of a draft-pole.

My design is to remove the draft-pole from the binder after drawing itonto the truck and connect the same pole to the truck. As poles ofdifferent binders vary in width, I make the bounds with an adjustablespace between them by means of the triangular blockstt'.

The outer edges of said blocks are grooved and fit over the hounds, asshown in Fig. 4, and they are also provided with a series of holes,through which the pin or bolt a may be passed.

As the blocks 2' are slid forward on the hounds the space between themis diminished, and when slid backward said space is enlarged, thussuiting different widths of poles. The pin it holds the blocks and thepole in place.

For the purpose ofeasily drawing the binder onto the truck, I employtheskids 0 0. Said skids are each formed of a plank notched out and fittedto the circumference of the wheel, as shown, so that they are firmlyheld in place even with the top of the wheel, and they are furthersupported by a block, 8, attached to the under side of the plank andresting on the hub of the wheel.

- The operation of my deviceis obvious. The

binder is easily drawn on the truck over the skids o, is blocked by thereaches and the blocks a c, and is secured to the truck by the hooks d,as before explained. The pole is now uncoupled from the binder andcoupled to the truck, and the binder,now presenting its naro rowdimensions in the line of draft, is easily drawn along the highway orthrough ordinary gates or bars.

I am aware of the patent to Lighthall, July 5,

1881, No. 243,715, harvesters, and I do not claim anything thereinshown.

I claim as my invention- 1. In combination with the hounds c andadjustable blocks 6 t", a truck having bolsters a- (0, reaches 1) 0,blocks a 0, and hooks d, all roo constructed and arranged in the mannerde- In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed scribed. my name.

2. A skid, 0, having one end cut to fit the WILLIAM H TURNER curve ofthe wheel-rim, as described, the block a, v 5 and the wheel of a truck,combined in the man- Witnesses:

ner described and shown and for the purpose H. 1 HOOD,

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